09 Feb 1924
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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1924
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR items mention Teddy, money in satchels, evolution and embryology, Lenin’s good brain, and The Wise British. The readable text mixes disparate topics without a clear single event or person to center a full article.
A column imagines Theodore Roosevelt confronting Harding era corruption with bold action. It notes testimony by Fall, Doheny, and McLean about large cash and bonds, criticizing entanglements with oil leases and cabinet loyalty. The piece also mocks North Carolina bans on embryology education and cites Lenin brain trivia.
The Republican State Central Committee met in Santa Fe and unanimously approved a Coolidge endorsement resolution. They appointed Prager Miller as chairman and will keep him on the job until after the election. The committee expressed support for Coolidge as the presidential nominee without binding the state convention’s delegates.
J A Gaunt formerly of Reserve State Bank Reserve Catron county received a three to four year term in the state penitentiary on a venue trial at Los Lunas. Federal charges against Gaunt for issuing money orders without payment will be pursued before a federal grand jury in March relating to over forty thousand dollars involved in the case.
A bill proposing a twenty five percent reduction on personal income taxes payable this year has been introduced in Congress with broad Republican support in both chambers. If passed, taxpayers would receive the tax cut this year and should prepare their returns to benefit from the reduction.
A garbled OCR fragment discusses taking life for a dollar and mentions the rich, income taxes, and a January reference. The text is unclear and largely unreadable but hints at wealth and coercion themes.
Washington bulletin reports Woodrow Wilson died at 11 15 AM after three days of attentive bedside watching. President Coolidge proclaimed thirty days of mourning and ordered full military honors for the funeral with a state funeral suggested.
Washington reports Woodrow Wilson has died and the nation observes a national pause as funeral arrangements are completed. The funeral will involve a quiet home service, cathedral rites, and a silent tribute as Congress and government departments halt operations. Soldiers and marines secure the route to the cathedral for the processional march.
The First National Bank in Albuquerque resumed normal operations as about half a million dollars in currency arrived Tuesday and another half million was sent Tuesday night from the Federal Reserve in El Paso. A Federal Reserve official stated that the authority can forward up to a million dollars more if needed.
Oil field notes report Navajo tribal funds will rise by more than ninety thousand dollars with at least thirteen wells to begin on the reservation within three months. Bidders face a February 15 decision to advance or forfeit initial bids from the October auction while tests of lower oil sands and Pennsylvania sands proceed. A February Shiprock conference will address flood protection.
A fire at a brick plant Monday around nine o clock damaged the roof of one room and caused minor damage elsewhere. The blaze spread quickly but did not reach machinery. Judge McFie in charge was away in Santa Fe and will consult the court on action.
The Herald highlights how illustrated news dominates modern reporting with widespread use of pictures. It argues pictures convey more than words, shaping public understanding and signaling a shift toward image led storytelling across metropolitan papers and daily picture services.
The Rispin interests moved material early this week to establish camp houses two miles north and one mile east of the Big Grassers in the Ute pasture about eighteen miles north of Farmington. Matt Stiffler from Boundary Butte visited for camp supplies and to arrange an intensive drilling campaign this spring and summer on the promising structure. Crude oil in the mid continental field now sells at double from a month ago, and drills are arriving. delays cited in 1923 seem removed.
Juan Herrera, a recent mine worker, held up the Angeles Pool Hall last Saturday night taking about 600 dollars in cash. He fled by train toward Thoreau but was arrested the next day in Trinidad. Night Marshal Silva and Officer McGraw organized the swift manhunt and plan to bring Herrera back pending authorization of expenses.
At the last Yates Camp No 222 meeting twenty five initiates and fifteen applications were presented The work was by Theodore Silva and Joseph Ward assisted by GE Meponatt state manager Phoenix The Woodmen Circle No 48 attended and enjoyed the event The next meeting will be in the basement of the Garden Pool Hall building and will serve as the meeting place moving forward.
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